You stalkers...

EDIT: Seagleam was kind enough to make a nice image for you all to put on your profile regarding all of the drama that's come up lately. If you'd like to use it, it's located at the end of this entry!

You all must stalk this blog. You really enjoy it, yes? Good, good. I have lured you in. :D

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That anatomy is just juicy.

Anyways, on to the main point of this article/entry/blog/whatever-it-actually-is. I had a great topic for today, but my "wonderful" short-term memory made me forget it after five minutes. I told myself to write it ahead of time, but no... I had to be the lazy douchebag that I am. Nobody can argue there; I am quite lazy, and I mope around like a potato sack, which is close enough to a douchebag.

So, back to my point. I had two ideas for today - one was an entry about how epic Karl is, and the other one is in regards to all of the drama on Wolf-Haven. Should I be an ass-kisser, as Zanna claims that I am on her blog (hey, gotta live up to my expectations!) or should I get everyone fired up about the drama? Decisions, decisions...

The fact that her blog is titled, "Zanna's Revenge" kind of worries me... I mean, if you consider blaspheming and slander "revenge", you've got serious issues to work out. If you hate somebody, don't waste your time, because nobody actually cares about a banned member's opinion on respected members anyways.

I can write about how epic Karl is any time, because he's always being epic. Seriously, Karl just has that... thing about him. The thing where the party don't start 'til he walks in. Not as the site owner, but as a person in general. Before you form an opinion of Karl, please make invisible the "site owner" title before you do so.

Now, let's get into the drama. Where did it start, you ask? Well, from what I have seen and observed, its orients seem to be Phoenix. I'll flat-out say it: Phoenix traced photographs and other images to produce most of the Map art. I'm pretty sure that there are only a few non-traced animals. I'm not going to sugar-coat it or act like it isn't a big deal, since art theft is illegal. I'm not going to treat you like babies and leave details out. Anyways, we don't actually know (well, I don't) who brought the art theft to attention and found the images, but I reported it to Karl. On Wolf-Haven ER's Chatbox, somebody named "The Hacker" had posted the images. When I reported it to Karl (again, blame my short-term memory) I'm fairly certain that he said he knew and was making an attempt to resolve the issue. He asked me to remove the Chatbox for a while, so I did. I never found out what exactly happened, but when I saw that Phoenix was removed from the staff, I knew why. Well, actually, I didn't really know why; I didn't know who made what images for the site.

KARL IS WORKING ON GETTING NEW ART, so please, do NOT jump down his throat! Creating 20+ good quality images is not easy. Personally, I say that callyKat should create them. She said that she'd like to, and she's a great artist. I've known her off-site for a while before I joined Wolf-Haven, so I can agree with any "CallyKat is awesome" statements.

Back to the point. According to Chesh's blog, "He started on about a group of people on msn who gathered and conspired against Wolf-Haven. How they dissed people on the website, dissed packs, listed people on their little hit list, and how they were going to make thier own website to compete with Wolf-Haven. I won't list to you who these members were, but I'm sure if you guess than you'll have a pretty good idea. So, this msn group eventually got busted by Aer, who was working somewhat as a double agent and showing Karlos their chat logs. An in the end how they put the blame on one member in their group when they got caught.
The way Storm relayed the info to me, he portrayed Aeralie as some sort of criminal that only told to snag an admin position, Karlos as some greedy person who would do anything for money."

So, from what I understand, Aeralie busted this group of anti-Wolf-Haven players and earned herself an admin account. Don't worry; that new admin wasn't a hacker, as most of you were thinking.  In short, Vectias is Aeralie. Now, do not assume that Aeralie or Karl is at fault, because neither of them aren't.

If you want more information regarding the whole Aeralie thing, check out Cheshire's blog. It's actually pretty decent. Chesh is fair, and I think you'll enjoy reading. Basically, he was the middle-man that got stuck in the middle of all of this. But we still love Chesh. <3

Now, where did I become involved in the drama? To be honest, I wasn't very much involved up until two days ago. Other than the occasional common insult, I've been pretty much drama-free. Zanna, Kasac, Stormgaze and I did have a heated discussion about SunsetGuardian's XP being removed, though I don't really consider that drama, since heated discussion =/= fighting. We were still friends the next day. We've come to the resolution of removing it in v1.2 anyways, so even if it did cause problems, it wouldn't matter at this point.

Now, we all know that Bandaint is a rude troll who gets her lulz by insulting others. Not necessarily terrible, but not pleasant if you're on her bad side. I have never bothered to talk to her because I viewed her as rude and simply didn't have any reason to want to be her friend. I'm shy, and people become friends with me; I don't become friends with people. It's nothing personal against anybody; I'm just quiet and insecure and all. Since Band never talked to me and she was rude to other members, I was fine with the conclusion of, "Band is rude. I'll stay away from her and mind my own business, and we'll all be fine. She isn't causing me any trouble."

From watching Band's actions from the start of WH to now, she has changed, but the change is so drastic that she now appears to be ass-kissing to the staff. Don't get me wrong, but when somebody magically goes from "lol i haet u and ur suggestion sux0rz" "Stop the newbie haaaate!", then something's up.

Now, I was merrily carrying along on WH one day as I usually do when I asked the Chatbox if I had changed any. Everybody said "No", except for Bandaint, who said, "You've changed positively and negatively." I asked what she meant, but she didn't tell me. So, I pushed it aside as if nothing had happened.

The next day, I was on the Chatbox again, when Bandaint decided to say, "I hate Sea." I know why, too. About five minutes beforehand, she commented on my new suggestion and told me that my standards were too high. I told her, "Calm down, Band. It's just a suggestion." So, that is why she wrote, "I hate Sea" on the Chatbox. Totally unneeded, yes? She then told me that I have a big ego and am an ass-kisser. Obviously pissed off since I had had no prior conversations with Band, I... you know, I don't actually REMEMBER what I did, which is the sad part. I think I told her, "Well, Band, you're not very nice to members" or something along the lines of that. I seriously don't remember. Kasac then told me to get off of my high horse, which I am assuming is slang for having a big ego.

Then, I started getting hate mail from random WH users. It wasn't on WH, though; the sad thing is, it was on ChickenSmoothie. They knew that they could get in trouble for doing it on WH, so they did it on CS. Totally confused and fed up, I attempted to leave Wolf-Haven to cool down.

Four hours later, I came back because I realized that I was being a dumbass. Why should I leave an entire website because one person doesn't like me and says that I'm so terrible? I didn't know that constantly offering help to new members in the Support forum and not being rude to newbies and n00bs was having a big ego. I view myself as a very kind person. So now I have a big ego because I do not constantly hate on myself? Nice. I'm supposed to be depressed and say, "Oh, I hate myself, I'm so terrible. There's nothing good about me.", then? I'll be flat-out honest with you; I view myself as a shy yet kind member who enjoys helping others, hss a wonderful personality and temper, and doesn't mind lending a helping hand when needed. I put it on my profile, I put it in my Moderator application, and I put it in my messages when I introduce myself. Now I'm not ALLOWED to be kind? Now being kind is ass-kissing?

Then, Zanna wrote her "opinion" blog. Err, I mean her decoy for bashing people and not getting blamed for it. It's just going to start rumors. For example, in her blog, she stated that I caused "lulzy shit between Jhaxx, Dalfang, and [myself]" when, actually, Dal is the one who directed me to her blog before she even started writing articles. There was never any shit between Jhaxx and myself, either. I have stated multiple times that I do not care about the whole "Who was first with rainbows?" jazz and that the "firsts" on my profile were just for fun. Jhaxx and I came to an agreement that he was the first male wolf with rainbows and I was the first female wolf with rainbows. And I just thought of one right now, actually; I was the first to have rainbows on my wolf's design, he was the first to have it on his emotes. That works, too. Either way, I DON'T REALLY FUCKING CARE WHO WAS FIRST WITH RAINBOWS, so I'd appreciate if people like Zanna stop spreading shit around that isn't even true.

Now, with Zanna's blog? I read it to see what she has to say about others. Unfortunately, most of it is personal opinion (Zanna and I were on good terms until she was banned, and she never would have called me those things one month ago) (I've been told, by Zanna, that Band and Kas spread the whole Band thing and rumors regarding it over MSN) considering that I could say positives and negatives about Blaez that Zanna didn't, or I could say that she left out the fact that I am quite a reputable user. I'm probably going to stop reading it. Hey, if we all stopped reading it, she wouldn't keep writing because she'd have no viewers; that gets nearly every blogger to not bother blogging. Hey, why bother if nobody's going to read it? I wouldn't blog without the constant reminder that I have many viewers reading what I have to say.

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Perhaps you are wondering why I always seem to get the bad end of things? I've always been a scapegoat and an easy target, I suppose. The scapegoating started for me in second grade, and now I have the chance to bore you with personal stories to get my point across. Whoo!

So, I was in second grade. Before I explain what happened, we will establish that I am legally blind and have been since birth. No, I don't use a guide dog or anything; legally blind is simply a term for those with terrible vision. In short, I have extremely near-sighted vision. My vision is 20 x 200, meaning that I see details at 20 feet that you see at 200 feet. I personally think that my doctor's diagnosis is a bit drastic, and at 20 feet I can see some detail in a tree, but I've never seen the world through "normal" eyes, so I couldn't tell you that. Anyways, as I said, this causes me to be near-sighted, so my teachers usually placed me in the first or second row of seating arrangements. Our desks were arranged in tables, and I sat at a table with this boy named Ben. Ben was the skinny kid that everybody disliked, and he hung out with two other kids that nobody really liked. He had a ig second grade-style crush on me. I say "second grade-style crush" because second-graders don't know what crushes are. But y'know. Anyways, the teacher wrote math problems on the board, and Ben pulled out his calculator. The teacher caught him and took the calculator away. So, I said, "Ben is a cheater, Ben is a cheater~" and my friends joined in. Then, Ben took a girl's pencil and threw it at me. It hit me in the eye. Luckily for me, it hit my tear duct and caused me no harm. After a nice trip to the nurse's office, I told the principal. Two days later, when I walked into class, my Math teacher informed me that I would be sitting in the back of the room.

Now, how crueler can a teacher get? She knew that I was elgally blind, and put me in the back of the room as a punishment? Using my disability as my punishment, yes? That is cruel. Ben ended up getting in no trouble whatsoever for what he did. I could go on and on about incidents like this, but it would only bore you. I feel that that story is a good enough example.

If you think about it, a school could be viewed as a website. The principal is the Administrator, and each teacher is a Moderator. Perhaps not actually relative to my Wolf-Haven or school story, but that would be similar to Corina muting me because I called Ecafur stupid, then Eca hacked Wolf-Haven and removed all of my XP, and her not getting in trouble for it. (<---- You know that's just an example, yes? xD Chesh didn't.)

I really don't like to be involved in drama, but I just wanted to share my side of the story so that I am not disliked by the community for false reasons.